Repository History

This page describes the broad outlines of Dryad's history. For more details about technical development, see the Release Notes. For more details about the history of Dryad's funding, see Grants. Many more details can be found in the various Dryad Publications.

August 2013: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene completes integration. Many journals, societies, and publishers agree to support the costs of data archiving by their authors and affiliates.

September 2013: Dryad begins assessing a Data Publishing Charge for all new submissions to the repository, following the Dryad Business Plan and Sustainability; 16 journals, societies, and publishers are sponsoring the costs of their authors' data archiving in 42 journals (See list).